ABAP Developer Challenge - Joule for Developers using Basic Trial

[sheenamk]

Let’s kick off this year’s Developer Challenge with a topic close to home: ABAP.

With AI dominating conversations across the tech world, we thought it would be exciting for our community to explore Joule for Developers this month.

SAP Joule for Developers brings embedded AI capabilities to SAP Build and ABAP, delivered through Joule. It helps accelerate the development of apps and extensions, reduce development costs, and enhance overall developer productivity and proficiency.

SAP Joule for Developers is engineered for ABAP excellence by

• Leveraging SAP’s ABAP large language model trained on enterprise-grade code.
• Generating data models, app logic, and unit tests with precision.
• Migrating custom ABAP code faster with documentation chat, code explanation, and issue diagnostics.

The Challenge:

  For this challenge we will be using Basic Trial offering for SAP Build that includes a SAP BTP ABAP Environment with Joule for Developers. During the first week we will focus on setting up the ABAP instance from the Basic Trial in ADT and then will explore some of the key functionalities of Joule for Developers.

How to Participate:

To participate in and complete this challenge, simply follow these steps:

• Complete the challenge assigned for each week.
• Create a package with your community ID in the format mentioned in the Week1 challenge.
• Post your package name in the thread for each week.
• We will review your work inside the package with your community ID.

Challenge Timeline

The challenge will span for 4 weeks starting on Monday March 2nd 2026 and ending on March 23rd 2026. We will keep the challenge open till the end of the month to accomodate anyone who is running late 🙂. To count towards the overall monthly challenge, you must complete and submit each week's task. Make sure to revisit this blog post to discover the upcoming week's challenge!

March 2nd, 2026   – Start of Challenge: Week 1

March 9th, 2026    –  Week 2 

March 16th, 2026  – Week 3 

March 23rd, 2026  – Week 4 

March 30th, 2026 - Optional Task

So let’s get started.

Rewards

Upon submitting all required entries by the end of the challenge, you'll earn an SAP Community badge for participating in the SAP Developer Challenge for March. Please ensure to follow all the instructions mentioned in this blogpost or the respective challenge discussions.

We are excited to hear your experience about the challenge and the learning adventure.

Best of Luck !!!

[Pratik_Ch]

Package name: ZAC_PRATIK_CH - Week-1

[prakash_nnit]

Package ZAC_2278875 created

[Sekharmanda]

ZAC_1293437 Week-1

[flaviosp8536]

Pacote ZGE288208

[marcos_cruces]

Challenge accepted - Package: ZAC_823818

[remin2504]

ZAC_2276163 Week-1

[nareshdkumar]

ZAC_2285709 week-1

[DilshadNIT]

Week 1 Package Name: ZGE288535

[ARMAN_1132]

Excited for the challenge.
Week 1 - Package created : ZAC_1555968

[VijayasekarK]

Week 1 - Package created : ZAC_289444

[RohanShukla]

Really good learning and exposure to Joule with RAP!

Package Name: ZGE289420 for Week 1

[lakshminarayana_jeripotula321]

week 1 Challenge Accepted.

package name -  ZAC_2273631

[samuel4090]

Nome do pacote ZGE288825 semana 1, acabei não colocando o nome do pacote padrão 😅

[samuel4090]

Package create ZAC_2085977

[alex4051049]

Package ZGE289553

[Preikian]

Package created  ZAC_1624622 - Week 1

[DalianaCima]

Package name: ZAC_2286755

[lidavidlee]

Package name:  ZAC_147448

[Jiiva]

Package created : ZAC_1584004

[saikalyanx]

ZAC_1845622 - Week 1

[allanpradella]

Package: ZAC_2103755
Community ID: 2103755

😀

[NavjotSinghGhotra]

Package Name: ZAC_1750933

Community Id: 1750933

[Mohak_Madaan]

Week 1 - Package created : ZAC_2227327

[allanpradella]

Package Name: ZAC_2103755
ID Community: 2103755

[Jaya_Sanjay71]

Package: ZAC_1900964

[sai_rajesh_k]

Week1 - Package Name: ZAC_12507

[San4]

package name: ZSAN_GE288376 week1

[Ihor_Haranichev]

ZAC_643343 week 1

[Ojeswini_Sanaka]

Package name -  ZAC145060

[ericquejano]

Package Name: ZAC_148789

[athiksha]

Package Name: ZAC_2263470

[TanushreeTomar]

ZAC_1710726

[Yash_Kulkarni]

Week 1: Package Name ➡️ ZAC_1654446

[Rajani_Pokuri]

Great, looking forward to get hands-on with J4D!

[rdulek]

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[CelsoNave]

Package: ZAC1495417

[nmirandaghn]

Package ZAC_14352419

[Jatishkumar_Lodhiya]

#package created#ZAC_2232346

[NidhiSingh17]

Week-1 done. Package created ZAC_2289322

[sridhb]

Package Name- YZGE291225

[Saandeep]

Completed all challenges for all 4 weeks : Package : ZAC_1606775

[Jess_ica-98]

Week 1 - Completed - Package Name: ZCA_1513646

[ARMAN_1132]

Package: ZAC_1555968

Week 4 Challenge has been completed😀.

- Used determination and Joule Code Prediction Capability.

- provided prompt as below

With some minor adjustments( instead of sy-datum , we use cl_abap_context_info=>get_system_date( ) class method)

 METHOD get_brew_date.

    READ ENTITIES OF zr_brew_am IN LOCAL MODE
         ENTITY brew
         FIELDS ( brewdate )
         WITH CORRESPONDING #( keys )
         RESULT DATA(entities).

    DATA update_table TYPE TABLE FOR UPDATE zr_brew_am.

    LOOP AT entities ASSIGNING FIELD-SYMBOL(<entity>).
      APPEND VALUE #( %tky = <entity>-%tky
                      brewdate = cl_abap_context_info=>get_system_date( ) - 7 ) TO update_table.
    ENDLOOP.

    MODIFY ENTITIES OF zr_brew_am IN LOCAL MODE
      ENTITY brew
        UPDATE FIELDS ( brewdate )
        WITH CORRESPONDING #( update_table ).
  ENDMETHOD.

- The week 4 task was accomplished. 
Determine Brew Date using determination and Joule's Code Prediction Capability

Brew Date is current date - 7 days 😋

Happy Learning and Jouling 😊!!

[Lokutrip]

Package ZGE296372

[YogSSohanee]

Week 4 challenge completed.

Published date kept as blank

And then it is autoderived.

 

[alexandre_src]

Week 4 - Completed  ( Package: ZAC_144671 ) 

[PrabhuRaja]

ZAC_176253

[Debrup_Roy]

Week 1 Completed :  ZAC_2040871

[kirankalpathy]

All the exercises completed. Package: ZAC_513131

Hoping to see the badge soon! 🙂

[miguelmota]

Completed all exercises for all 4 weeks and the optional task : ( Package : ZAC_40990 ). 

Happy Jouling! 🙂